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House rejects bailout bill; market plunges
Speaker Nancy Pelosi leaves a news conference after the House rejected the bailout bill yesterday. Pelosi has harshly criticized Republicans
for not rallying behind the legislation.
Alumna is named first
female CEO of DuPont
by Giovanni Russonello
Daily Editorial Board
DuPont has selected Ellen
Kullman (E ’78) to become its
president and chief executive
officer (CEO), making her the
first woman to lead a major U.S.
chemical company, the corpo-
ration announced last Tuesday.
Kullman, a Tufts trustee, will
become the third board mem-
ber actively serving as CEO of a
Fortune 100 company when she
assumes the executive’s chair
on Jan. 1. She will take over as
company president tomorrow.
“She’s just a gifted leader,”
DuPont spokesperson Anthony
Farina told the Daily. “Some
people have this capability and
some people don’t. Ellen has
this capability where you really
want to be a part of her team,
Ellen Kullman chats with current DuPont CEO Chad Holliday. Kullman will
take over as CEO on Jan. 1.
Inside this issue
Professors are making
more of an effort to learn
students’ names.
see FEATURES, page 3
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
you really want to be a part of
what she is doing.”
University President Lawrence
Bacow said Kullman’s appoint-
ment is an indication of the
worth that a Tufts education
carries. “Ellen Kullman is every-
thing a great CEO should be
— smart, strategic, thoughtful,
experienced and, of course, well
educated. DuPont is fortunate
to be getting the benefit of her
leadership,” he said in a state-
ment to the Daily. “[Her] suc-
cess and [that] of many others
speaks well of the value of a
Tufts education.”
Bacow noted the spate of
prominent business leaders
that graduated from Tufts in
Kullman’s class. Jamie Dimon,
the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and
see KULLMAN, page 2
courtesy dupont.com
Sophomore runner Steph
McNamara leads Tufts to
a third-place finish at the
Codfish Bowl.
see SPORTS, back page
Hillel helps
students Rock
the Vote
Volunteers at yesterday’s Rock the Vote event achieved their goal by signing up over 100 students to
receive absentee ballots for the upcoming presidential election. “It was definitely a success — it was
always busy,” said sophomore Amy Glazier, who helped run the Hillel-sponsored event. Glazier and
others set up a booth on the campus center patio, where they helped students enlist online to receive
ballots in the mail. Volunteers also helped some students register to vote.
Curtatone, other officials visit Tufts for health talk
by Neesha bhagat and
carter rogers
Contributing Writers
State and city officials
joined educators in Ballou
Hall yesterday to stress the
need for involvement from
local governments in build-
ing healthy communities.
The event grew out of the
Where You
Read It First
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by Pranai Cheroo
Daily Editorial Board
The House of Representatives yesterday
rejected a $700 billion bailout of the finan-
cial industry, even as congressional leaders
pleaded for its passage and argued that it was
necessary to stave off a devastating economic
collapse.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average experi-
enced an unprecedented fall yesterday, drop-
ping by 777.68 points, the most ever in one day.
Oil prices also plummeted.
“Wall Street was counting on [the bill] pass-
ing,” economics Lecturer Anna Hardman said,
explaining the stock market drop.
In the House, 228 representatives voted
against the Emergency Economic Stabilization
Act of 2008, and 205 supported it.
Advocates of the failed bill are scrambling
to craft substitute legislation that can appease
representatives, whose phones rang off the
hook in recent days with calls from angry con-
stituents.
“Those who have caused the problem [are]
receiving the benefit,” Economics Lecturer
Jack Green said, referring to how the legisla-
tion would benefit Wall Street executives. This
proposed payout to major companies has frus-
trated many Americans, he said.
The bill would inject taxpayer money into
private financial companies, many of which
are shutting down or being bought out as
Mct
the result of the mounting global recession.
see ECONOMY, page 2
Rebekah sokol/tufts daily
Shape Up Somerville program, Shape Up Somerville and
a collaboration between Tufts an assistant professor at the
and the City of Somerville, Friedman School of Nutrition
according to Lesley Hawkins, Science and Policy, joined
the public information offi- Somerville Mayor Joseph
cer at City Hall. Shape Up Curtatone and Springfield
Somerville promotes healthy Mayor Domenic Sarno on a
living by focusing on nutri- panel.
tion and physical activity. Keynote speaker Mark
Christina Economos, the
principal investigator for see HEALTH, page 2
Today’s Sections
News 1 Editorial | Letters 10
Features 3 Comics 11
Arts | Living 5 Classifieds 13
Captured 8 Sports Back
2 The Tufts Daily News Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Wall Street crisis affects student loans

Police Briefs
Burn-ie baby
The Tufts University Police Department
(TUPD) received a call at 1:03 p.m. on
Sept. 26 about a fire on the roof of the
Carmichael Dining Hall. The Medford Fire
Department also responded and hosed
down the area.
Someone had lit a stuffed animal on
fire and thrown it out of the window of
a dorm room, according to TUPD Sgt.
Robert McCarthy. The creature landed on
the roof of the dining hall, causing the fire,
he said.
The minor blaze led to a small amount
of damage. The Department of Facilities
placed a tarp over the area to protect it
from this weekend’s rainy weather.
He came in through the
dorm room window…
A resident of 14 Sawyer Ave. approached
TUPD officers on the road at 12:31 a.m.
on Sept. 28 to tell them that $300 had
been stolen from her room while she was
downstairs in the common room.
She had left her door locked but neglect-
ed to lock her windows. The window was
open when the student returned to her
room. Someone had entered through the
window by way of the fire escape and
taken money, McCarthy said.
Would you like a bloody
nose with that?
A student reported at 2:40 a.m. on
Sept. 28 that he had been headbutted
at the corner of Packard Avenue and
Professors Row. The student said he
was waiting in line to buy something
from Moe’s food stand when another
student came up to him and rammed
him in the face, giving him a bloody
nose.
Midnight marauder
Officers received information at 3:23
a.m. on Sept. 28 about a Tufts student
breaking and entering on Bromfield
Avenue. When the police received
word, the house’s resident was chasing
the student down Bromfield toward
College Avenue.
The student had kicked in the rear
door of the apartment, waking the
inhabitants, McCarthy said. The chase
ended when he entered another house
on Bromfield.
The Somerville Police Department
arrested the student for breaking and
entering.
— compiled by Sarah Butrymowicz
ECONOMY
continued from page 1
Backers of the bailout legislation back-
ers include Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry M.
Paulson, Jr., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
President George W. Bush and the two major
presidential candidates, Sens. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Paulson promised to continue work-
ing to pass the bailout. “This is much too
important to simply let fail,” he told the
press after the House’s vote. Paulson insist-
ed that rejecting the bill meant doom not
only for companies, but also for everyday
Americans. “Families, too, feel the credit
crunch as it becomes more difficult to get
car loans or student loans,” he said.
Opponents of the bill argued that it had
been put together too hastily and that it
committed too much of taxpayers’ money
and not enough funding from Wall Street
firms, whose irresponsibility many blame
for the current economic turmoil.
Supporters believed the bailout was vital
to helping both smaller businesses and major
financial corporations weather the crisis.
“A lot of people who don’t like this still
believe that it may be the least bad option,”
Hardman said.
“Nobody wanted to be in this situation,”
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said in a state-
ment. “But, after careful consideration,
I decided to support this bill because I
believe that a failure to act now would not
just punish Wall Street, but put hard-work-
ing Americans at risk of losing their homes,
their jobs and their savings.” Markey repre-
sents parts of Medford, including a portion
of Tufts’ campus.
Barton Edgerton, a lecturer in the
Department of Political Science, agreed that
inaction will only exacerbate the problem.
“I think the worst thing is doing nothing; I
think that there’s pretty broad agreement that
something needs to be done. [But there’s] a
good deal of dispute as to what should be
done,” he said.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the
bill would provide the Treasury with access to
a $700 billion line of credit and wide author-
ity to buy shaky mortgages, securities and
financial assets that are undermining mar-
ket confidence and limiting the liquidity of
financial institutions.
While current economic turmoil and lack
of liquidity will resound more immediately
across Wall Street, they will impact students
as well.
“Already, in the past year, student loans
have come under tension,” Edgerton said.
Last week, the Daily reported that 135 lend-
ers have suspended federal loans through
the Federal Family Education Loan Program
(FFELP), including the Massachusetts
Educational Finance Authority, the state’s
most prolific student lender.
Alexandra Bogus and Giovanni Russonello
contributed reporting to this article.

DuPont to continue focus on integrating science with successful business models

Kullman
continued from page 1
Peter Dolan, the former CEO of
Bristol-Myers Squibb, are also
members of the Class of 1978.
Jeff Kindler, the CEO of Pfizer, is
a 1977 Tufts alum.
Kullman has served as execu-
tive vice president and a mem-
ber of the office of the chief
executive since 2006. During
that time, she has led four of the
five DuPont business segments.
Farina said Kullman’s superb
performance as an executive
qualified her to become CEO.
“Ellen led our fastest-growing
business segment — that’s our
Safety and Protection business
segment — and she grew that
from a $3.5 billion business to
a $5.5 billion business in just a
[couple of ] years.”
Kullman said she is excit-
ed to assume her new titles.
“Certainly it’s a great honor to
lead this company. I’ve been
here 20 years and just continue
to be impressed by our science
and how we connect that in the
marketplace,” she said during a
conference call with reporters
Over the past decade, DuPont,
which operates in more than 70
countries, has transformed into
a top “science-based products
and services company,” accord-
ing to a press release issued by
the company. A DuPont employ-
ee since 1988, Kullman will
bring her knack for integrating
the corporation’s role as a scien-
tific innovator with its business
endeavors, Farina said.
“[Kullman] has demonstrated
a unique capability to connect
our science to the needs in the
marketplace,” she said. “That
means meeting with customers,
understanding their needs —
what they’re looking for — and
then being able to connect our
capabilities back at our global
[research and development]
headquarters.”
Farina said Kullman pio-
neered an initiative to bring
DuPont scientists to meetings
with customers so that the
researchers could better under-
stand the products that clients
wanted them to engineer.
As an example, the spokes-
man mentioned a project in
China in which energy trans-
formers in wind turbines were
overheating. DuPont scientists
met with companies that build
the transformers to get a handle
on the problem. The scientists
ended up crafting a new type
of the fireproofing, protective
product Nomex that was spe-
cifically engineered for wind
turbine transformers. “Now
we’re working with other coun-
tries around the world to help
them address this issue as well,”
Farina added.
When asked during the con-
ference call about her views
on taking over the corporation
during such a troubling time
for U.S. businesses, Kullman
emphasized DuPont’s role as
both a producer and a deal-
maker.
“I think that across our com-
pany, [it is] that real depth
of science and the culture of
delivering innovation that
really does shine through and
allows us to continue to grow
and create opportunities … in
many markets — in agricul-
ture, in thermal protection, in
oil and gas,” she said. “And so
I think we have tremendous
opportunities ahead of us and
a tremendous trajectory.”

Got an
Fenton calls for for less-structured exercise
HEALTH as excess fat obtained in childhood is

continued from page 1
Fenton, who currently serves as a pri-
vate public health, transportation and
planning consultant, used to host the
PBS series “America Walking” and was a
race walker for the U.S. national team.
He stressed the importance of fre-
quent walking as a mainstay of physical
fitness, saying that only 44 percent of
America’s youth fits the image of the
“free-range” child.
Fenton advocated for the construc-
tion of more walking- and bicycle-
friendly communities to help children
grow up healthy. He spoke about ways
to integrate exercise into everyday life,
mentioning taking the stairs, carrying
a bag instead of pulling one on rollers,
and parking farther from a destina-
tion.
“Perhaps what we have to do is not
the gym, formal-structured exercise,
but exercise in a more intrinsic way,
in a way that people can do without
thinking,” he said.
Fenton also encouraged the town
leaders in attendance to promote pub-
lic safety in their communities. He
suggested building more speed bumps
and wider lanes, which would create
an environment more conducive to
children playing outside without fear
of injury.
Economos, the Friedman School’s
New Balance Chair in Childhood
Nutrition, highlighted the importance
of effecting a shift in how society thinks
about community health, pointing to
how her children bring a more progres-
opinion?
the hardest to get rid of.
Curtatone lamented the challenges
he has faced in improving community
health while facing severe budget con-
straints and attempting to reverse poor
planning by his predecessors.
“Somerville has been an example of
how not to do it for several decades,”
he said.
He specifically criticized past offi-
We want to hear it.
cials for building highways in the loca-
tions of former trolley stops and noted
that he is trying to shift the city’s focus
away from automobile transportation
by making Somerville friendlier to
pedestrians and bikers.
Sarno emphasized the importance
of the “meat and potatoes” of local
government — such as education and
safety — which are crucial in forging
healthy environments for children.
Massachusetts Department of Public
Health Commissioner John Auerbach
introduced Lisa Erck, the department’s
coordinator of worksite initiatives, who
closed the summit with a presenta-
tion called “Working on Wellness.” She
joked to Sarno that rather than “meat
and potatoes,” she would like to see
more “fish and vegetables.”
Erck’s presentation focused on a
workplace health initiative started by
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sive mindset to issues such as smoking
and recycling than the preceding gen-
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She also underscored the importance
of combating weight gain in children,
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The health department used the
data to formulate recommendations
tailored to fit each set of workers. The
initiative will soon spread to other
state agencies.

Playing the name game makes a difference
For more and more professors, roll call goes beyond taking attendance
by Katharine Seim
Contributing Writer
When discussing their professors, students
might commend lively lectures or innovative
research, but more rarely do they cite a per-
sonal bond that developed over the course of
the semester.
But professors at universities nationwide
are attempting to change this through a
basic, yet surprisingly effective gesture: mak-
ing it a priority to learn their students’ names
and faces.
Sam Sommers, an assistant professor of
psychology at Tufts, applauded the develop-
ment of this phenomenon, but explained
that the effort isn’t always made.
In his sixth year of teaching at Tufts,
Sommers said it has always been important
to him to learn his students’ names, regard-
less of class size.
“It makes a huge difference,” Sommers
said. “Being anonymous changes the way
you behave. You feel less accountable, less
committed to an endeavor.”
Although Sommers argued that exerting
this extra effort proves to his students that he
has a vested interest in teaching the course,
he admitted that learning every name is no
easy task. His method involves taking the
time during exams to silently go up and
down rows to test his recall capacity.
According to Sommers, it is only fair for
professors to learn their students’ names.
Because students are repeatedly reminded
of the high work ethic they are expected
to maintain, professors should show they
respect their pupils’ hard work by at least
learning their names, he said.
While most students appreciate the efforts
of professors like Sommers, a select few who
balance taking notes with a casual game of
Solitaire during class time may find it sur-
prising if they are personally called out for
such extracurriculars.
Sommers said that he doesn’t mind if this
newfound familiarity between professors
AWK appella: TAC pokes fun at campus
groups, encourages members to ‘be chill’
The main aim of Tufts’ newest addition to the a cappella scene is to make fun of ... well,
people like these guys.
by Amanda McDavid
Daily Staff Writer
Mickey Rapkin’s recent book, “Pitch Perfect:
The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory,”
drew widespread attention for exploring the
subculture of one of college’s biggest and
most perplexing phenomena, that of a cap-
pella groups, which feature hoards of students
across the country who sing for crowds with-
Features
Assistant Psychology Professor Sam Sommers believes that remembering students’ names
can have a positive effect on engagement in the classroom.
and students makes some students nervous.
“That’s good for them to know they’re
not massive members of the audience,”
Sommers said.
And efforts from those like Sommers
do not go unnoticed: Student reviews on
Ratemyprofessors.com and Tuftsreviews.
com rave about his superb teaching skills.
Most notably, it is common to see posts that
blatantly praise the fact that Sommers makes
a genuine effort to get to know his students.
“Little things go a long way,” Sommers
said.
A like-minded professor is Joseph Litvak,
who has been teaching English courses of
various sizes at Tufts for nine years.
MCT
out instrumental accompaniment.
After doing extensive field research in the
world of collegiate a cappella, including a stint
with Tufts’ own Beelzebubs, Rapkin set out to
examine all aspects of the trend: its appeal, its
massive popularity and its relative nerdiness.
Had Rapkin, whose book came out this
summer, waited just a few more months, he
would have learned that another group at
Tufts is jumping on the a cappella bandwag-
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In smaller classes, Litvak said, it is easier
to learn individual students’ names, which
makes them more apt to participate in class.
Litvak also stressed the importance of
recognizing each student as an individual,
rather than just another face, agreeing with
Sommers that anonymity causes disengage-
ment.
“We’re not watching TV. You don’t want to
be a spectator,” Litvak said.
By learning every student’s name, a struc-
ture emerges that encourages students to
present themselves as intellectuals through
participation in class discussions and fosters
see NAMES, page 4
on, but their goal is to poke fun at the music.
The recently formed Tufts A Cappella
Collective (TAC) describes itself as the follow-
ing: “Tufts’ only, oldest, co-ed, green, queer-
friendly, non-religiously-affiliated, non-audi-
tioning a cappella group with questionable
musical ability and KILLER good looks.”
Their mission: to make fun of all campus
groups in general, with a special emphasis on
a cappella. Senior Glenn Katz, one of the coali-
tion’s founders, said he drew inspiration from
a similar group at Brown University.
“We kept joking around about creating this
group and came up with some great ideas for
it. Soon, it just became too good to just simply
joke about, and we had to actually turn our
words into action,” Katz said.
Along with fellow senior Laura Herman,
Katz ran with the idea and launched the collec-
tive, whose general interest meeting garnered
about 30 interested attendees, the majority of
whom were female.
“We could use some more males and beat
boxers, but overall turnout definitely shows us
that there is more interest than we originally
thought, which is great,” Herman said.
During one of its initial meetings, the TAC
enforced its comedic focus by brainstorming
a longer list of adjectives to describe the group,
some of which included toned, hypoaller-
genic, fierce, fun-sized and habit-forming.
And the coalition’s constitution consists
of just three tips: Keep it real, be chill and
rock out.
One of the group’s newest members, junior
Jackie Thomas, said rejection can be turned
into a positive experience through the TAC.
“This collective is a wonderful outlet for
people who have been rejected from a capella
[groups] and don’t want a large time commit-
ment,” she said.
see A CAPPELLA, page 4
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Jessie Borkan |
college is as college does
One is the
loneliest
number
I
cannot be alone. I can’t eat alone, walk
alone, pee alone, work alone, work out
alone — hell, I can’t even sleep alone,
which is why I brought the embarrass-
ingly named Bunny-Bun to school.
In a shocking display of selfishness,
my friends have chosen to sustain lives
outside of my need to be accompanied,
so I’ve had to turn to others. Thom
Yorke walks me to class. Lupe goes on
the elliptical with me (and I’m ashamed
to say, sometimes the Hanson broth-
ers do, too). David Byrne chills with me
while I clean my room, and Kate Nash
and Mason Jennings are always down
to hang out when I am cooking. I am
seriously dependent on over a thousand
famous people who have no idea I exist.
Let’s face it, this affliction of mine is
yours, too. Our generation’s ability to fly
solo is seriously stunted, and for that I
blame Steve Jobs. His ironically titled
line of “i”-things do anything but pro-
mote the “I” in my life, but rather, over
time, have amplified and distorted one
of the most universal human fears: the
fear of being alone.
Sit on the quad, and you will see
that of those students walking alone, the
vast majority are sporting those tell-tale
white ear buds, or, if they’re like me, they
are calling their mom/dad/sister/best
friend/aunt/other sister with absolutely
no intention beyond passing the time it
takes to walk from Olin to Anderson.
Even with the advent of cell phones,
nothing enables us to avoid our own com-
pany quite like the iPod. The iPod lets us
harbor two months worth of recorded
sound in an object the size of a deck of
cards, meaning that at any given moment,
you have at your fingertips the perfect
song for any occasion. You can make a
playlist for any potentially solitary activ-
ity — on my iPod I have playlists entitled
Walk, Run, Cook, Clean and Study, and
I have a feeling you do, too. On the off-
chance that you don’t have a ready-made
distraction from your long, lonely walk to
the Davis T stop, iPods are equipped with
the On-the-Go playlist feature, further
enforcing our belief that a journey alone
should be endured, not enjoyed.
Thich Nhat Hanh, a famed Buddhist
monk, might as well have been looking
into the soul of every iPod-carrying, too-
busy-to-introspect, overworked-and-
under-graded college student when he
said that, “We feel that there is a vacuum
in us and we don’t want to confront it
... every time we have a spare moment,
we are afraid of being alone with our-
selves.” He cited television, driving and
novels (oh, those were the days) as the
distractions, but in a world that is wire-
less, portable and increasingly small in
size, an iPod is even better — or worse.
Thich Nhat Hahn also warned that when
we use a machine, we change, becom-
ing both ourselves, and, in this case, the
iPod. That, to me, is a scary thought.
A few days ago, my iPod’s battery died,
and because most of my nonessential
belongings are still in boxes (including
my iPod cable), I currently have no way
to charge it. I could just unpack the rest
of my stuff, but I am having trouble find-
ing the motivation, probably because no
one will do it with me. I have, however,
walked many places without the aid of
my Summer ’08 playlist, or even that old
standby, Walk. I resist the urge to bother
my mom from 11:20 to 11:23 by calling
for absolutely no reason. I am easing into
being alone with myself, and it is actually
kind of liberating. Who knows how long
I will wait to charge my iPod? Given my
track record, it could be weeks. Just don’t
ask me to go to Dewick by myself.
Jessie Borkan is a junior majoring in clini-
cal psychology. She can be reached at Jessie.
Borkan@tufts.edu.
4 The Tufts Daily Features Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Students appreciate professors’ efforts

NAMES
continued from page 3
mutual respect and recognition, he said.
“If I perform and you watch, you’re put in a
very passive position that is not conducive to
real learning,” Litvak said.
Something as seemingly simple as pro-
nouncing a name correctly or learning a nick-
name makes a student feel noticed, Litvak
explained. “A basic element of human inter-
action is recognizing their uniqueness,” he
said.
Although the overarching presence of tech-
nology has ushered in a time where personal
connections are increasingly rare, Litvak takes
genuine strides to combat this.
“There’s a reason we still have classrooms
instead of online classes,” he said. “Personal
interaction is an important part of learning.
Teaching is not about an abstract transfer of
knowledge.”
Students have noticed the effort being put
forth by professors.
Christy Martinez, a junior majoring in
political science and community health,
Newly formed ‘a capella’ group boasts
less singing, more comedy, sarcasm
A CAPPELLA
continued from page 3
While the TAC looks to attract members
from diverse backgrounds, including those
involved in other musical groups, this aspect
does not overshadow its comedic offerings. In
fact, many members claim to have no singing
abilities whatsoever.
“I am very excited for this comedic group.
Since I can’t sing, I’ll be able to show off my
French horn skills,” freshman Michael
Bernstein said.
When performance time rolls around,
an eclectic combination of a cappella and
comedy will be paraded through the musi-
cal arrangements of senior Jeff Hamilton, and
shows are likely to include renditions of R.
Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet,” Ace of Base’s “I
Saw the Sign” and Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl.”
agreed that most of her professors care about
getting to know their students. In one of her
classes, all students are required to prop up
Student
nametags on their desks.
“It makes you want to try harder in class
because it shows that professors care about
Management
student progress and not just about lecturing
for three hours,” Martinez said.
Claire Maiers, a graduate student in the
Opportunities
music department, also appreciates this trend
from the perspective of a student as well as a
teaching assistant.
Maiers has served as teaching assistant
for music classes in the past and said that
she tries to learn the names of her students Carmichael Dining Hall
because of its effect on class discussions.
“[It] …makes learning more engaging on a
general level,” she said.
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Acknowledging the difficulty of name rec-
ollection in large sections, Maiers said that
students can always take the first step in
establishing a connection with their profes- Student Managers
sors, citing Take Your Professor to Lunch Week
and free coffee in the Tower Café as incentives
to do so.
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Not a single satirical or unconventional rock
will be left unturned. The TAC will not be seen
in a large or traditional concert hall. Instead,
Current Supervisors or
the group will perform on the library steps or in
the campus center, and will work to shred any General Workers may apply.
semblance of musical seriousness.
“Founding this coalition, we wanted to set
realistic goals and shoot low to not have failed
expectations,” Herman said. “We’re not even
officially a TCU club because we’re not looking
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for money since we’re financially self-sustain-
ing. Maybe down the road we’ll go through that Taryn.Van_Deusen@tufts.edu
process, but it’s not currently a priority.”
“What is important to us is to build and sus-
tain the coalition,” Herman and Katz added.
“We’re confident that members will pursue
many of the leadership opportunities available
to continue the coalition after we graduate,
since we’re both seniors.”

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Movie Review
‘Miracle’ stands out from Lee norm
by Evans Clinchy
Daily Editorial Board
Spike Lee has made a career out of
one distinct formula. The archetypal Lee
movie is a well known concept: a provoca-
Miracle at St. Anna
Starring Derek Luke, Michael
Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson
Miller
Directed by Spike Lee
tive, socially conscious drama usually set
in New York that grapples with the difficult
subjects of race and class in American
society. With every film released since his
masterpiece “Do the Right Thing” (1989),
the formula has worked.
With that in mind, it’s easy to see how
“Miracle at St. Anna” can be considered
the most ambitious project of Lee’s career.
This time Lee turns his focus to a small
village in Tuscany, Italy, where he tells
the remarkable story of an all-black divi-
sion of the American infantry in World
War II. “Miracle at St. Anna,” written and
adapted for the screen by novelist James
McBride, is elaborate, uncompromising
and all-encompassing, but above all it
is humanizing; as it explores the lives of
four soldiers fighting for a country that’s
never fought for them. “This uniform don’t
change nothing,” one of them says. “This
is a white man’s war, and negroes ain’t got
nothing to do with it.”
The film opens in New York in the 1980s,
when a man is murdered in cold blood in
the middle of a crowded post office. Hours
later, when a rookie reporter (played by
Joseph Gordon-Levitt) arrives on the scene,
he eventually tracks down the gunman
with the help of a benevolent police detec-
tive (Lee mainstay John Turturro). An inter-
view between the young white reporter and
the elderly black gunman ensues, which
leads into a flashback of 1940s Italy.
There we find four young soldiers: Staff
Sergeant Stamps (Derek Luke), a bold and
Album Review
Kings dethroned Exhibit showcases ancient
with attempt at empire’s glory and aesthetic
mainstream
by Jeff Goldman
Contributing Writer
Many fans of the Kings of Leon
were eagerly awaiting the release
of their fourth full-length album.
Only by the Night
Kings of Leon
RCA
Those hoping for another album in
the vein of “Aha Shake Heartbreak,”
(2004), the perfect companion for
whiskey-soaked, dance-filled nights,
however, might be disappointed.
“Only by the Night” steps even fur-
ther away from a classic, raw blues
sound and quickly assumes its place
as the most mainstream and dull of
any of their albums.
Outside of their music, the Kings
of Leon stand apart from the rest
of the music world based on their
composition alone. All the members
of the Kings are related, including
three brothers and a cousin from
the Followill clan. Born in Tennessee
and Oklahoma, the Followill brothers
see KINGS, page 7
Actors await their orders from Spike Lee in “Miracle at St. Anna.”
confident leader; Bishop (Michael Ealy), a
sergeant with an ironic name considering
his defiance of the Christian faith; Hector
(Laz Alonso), a loyal and likable corporal;
and Train (Omar Benson Miller), a private
with a humongous frame and an even
larger heart. It is these four performances,
especially Miller’s, that carry this film.
Train’s life is changed when he meets
eight-year-old Angelo (Matteo Sciabordi),
an Italian boy who fears for his life when
the Germans invade and his village comes
under fire. A strange bond is formed
between the large black man and the tiny
light-skinned boy, a bond that transcends
their obvious language barrier. Train, who
admits he had never so much as touched
a white person before meeting this boy
(“not even a dead one,” he says), becomes
practically a father to a boy to whom he
can’t even communicate.
Among the many themes of “Miracle at
St. Anna,” the most notable is faith, as the
film discusses its ability both to unite and
divide people. Two of the film’s most reso-
nant scenes are one in which a distraught
Bishop angrily questions God’s motives in
Gallery Review
by Adam Kulewicz
Contributing Writer
Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq
in April 2003, thousands of pieces
were looted from The Iraq Museum
Art and Empire: Treasures from
Assyria in the British Museum
At the Gund Gallery, through Jan. 4
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue
617-267-9300
in Baghdad, which housed one of
the world’s foremost collections of
Mesopotamian art. Many of these price-
less works have not been recovered and
may never be restored to the museum.
While this looting simply reflects the
chaos that shook the country after the
invasion, it also shows the immense
cultural significance of works from the
Neo-Assyrian Empire. To the Iraqi, and
to the world, they represent the glory
of the Assyrians and the importance
— perhaps now more than ever — of
appreciating those works that remain
from this 3,000 year-old empire.
The Museum of Fine Art, Boston’s
(MFA) new exhibit, “Art and Empire:
Treasures from Assyria in the British
Museum,” features many captivat-
ing pieces and is well worth the $8
admission fee (with Tufts ID). The
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letting so many innocent people die in the
bloody war, and another in which Angelo
curiously clutches the cross hanging from
Hector’s neck, proving that not a single
spoken word is required for the two to
share their faith. The film daringly poses
the questions of what faith is and how it
manifests itself while deliberately leaving
those questions unanswered. There are no
right answers.
“Miracle at St. Anna” is not a per-
fect film. At 155 minutes, it does stretch
too long, and its subplots, often revealed
through flashbacks within flashbacks, are
ultimately little more than distractions
from the more compelling main plot: the
story of four men and their newly adopted
son. But that main plot alone is enough to
make for one of the crowning accomplish-
ments of Lee’s career. Lee has come a long
way; two decades ago, he was making a
living off of simple parables about race in
America, and now, he has a new purpose.
Lee has made the case, as one character
unforgettably declares toward the end of
the film, that “miracles are the only sure
thing in life.”
Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Statue of the King,” on display at the “Art
and Empire” exhibit, draws on the imposing
power and wealth of the Assyrian Kingdom.
exhibit runs from Sept. 21 to Jan. 4 at
the MFA and features works spread
out over six rooms.
The show consists of stone reliefs
from the palaces of Assyrian Kings, as
well as bowls, vases, seals, small sculp-
tures, inscribed clay tablets and furni-
ture decorations from the Empire. The
see EMPIRE, page 7
5
Caryn Horowitz |
The Cultural Culinarian
You may or
may not
be allergic
to this column!
C
ookies make me uneasy. Chinese
food makes me nervous. Just
thinking about the candy aisle
in the grocery store makes me
uncomfortable.
What’s the cause of these seemingly
erratic food phobias? I may or may not
have a spontaneous peanut allergy.
Let me take you back a year.
It was last winter break, and I was eat-
ing potato pancakes cooked in peanut oil,
which I’ve been doing since I was in the
womb, when my throat started to itch. I
brushed it off as nothing to worry about
and kept on enjoying my latkes. But then
I started to get very hot. It was like one
second I could eat the latke and the next
second I couldn’t. The next morning my
face was completely covered in hives. I was
worried, but I thought it was some random
occurrence and kept on with my business.
I ate more latkes that night and two days
later I ate Chinese food; the hives didn’t
go away, and the itching in my throat got
worse with each meal. I started to panic.
The next week I went to an allergist to
get tested for food allergies. I was tested
for everything under the sun (Did you
know that you can be allergic to potato
skins?). Turns out, I have a peanut aller-
gy. Sorta. My test result was “on the bor-
der.” I’m not technically allergic, but I’m
not technically allergy-free either. My
doctor told me to keep eating normally.
Like that was going to happen. This
pseudo-allergy of mine makes things very
difficult — if I may or may not be allergic,
I may or may not become covered in hives
again if I eat peanuts. The worst part of
this ordeal is that I know exactly what
I’m missing. Sometimes I have a serious
hankering for pad thai, and I just can’t
bring myself to eat it — the unknown
consequences are just too frightening.
I had no clue how many foods have traces
of nuts in them until I had to pay attention
to it. Thousands of foods have the words
“may or may not contain traces of peanuts”
on their labels. Now, I get the whole legal
aspect of these warnings — food manufac-
turers have to protect themselves in case
someone with an allergy does eat one of
their products and has an allergic reaction
— but do you have any idea how frustrating
it is to constantly be between “may” and
“may not?” This requires the consumer to
make a judgment call every time they want
to eat something, and most allergy suffer-
ers always err on the side of caution.
My spontaneous semi-allergy is just
the tip of the allergy iceberg. Peanut
and tree nut allergies account for 100
to 150 deaths per year in the United
States. There is one man, however,
who seems to have the answer to the
peanut problems in this country: Dr.
Mohamed Ahmedna.
An agricultural researcher at North
Carolina A&T University, Dr. Ahmedna
has developed an allergen-free peanut,
which already has a patent-pending. The
researchers on his team say that sev-
eral food companies already have shown
interest in the product.
Dr. Ahmedna’s peanuts raise issues
about biologically altered/genetically
engineered foods, but in this instance,
where the existence of an altered food
can literally save lives, I am all for exper-
imentation. If this product will take the
confusion out of the lives of consumers
with peanut allergies, then I just may or
may not get the courage to have some
pad thai one day, and it just may or may
not be one of my best days ever.
Caryn Horowitz is a junior majoring
in history. She can be reached at Caryn.
Horowitz@tufts.edu.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
‘Only the Night’ sees Kings of Leon at
their darkest, overly mainstream hour
KINGS
continued from page 5
were raised all throughout the South,
constantly moving to meet the needs
of their father who made his living as a
traveling preacher.
In their older music, the Southern
influence is very tangible. The guitar
blares and wails like the southern
blues of yore, and the bass drives
along, turning heads and shaking hips
rather than settling for a role as the
backdrop for the rest of the instru-
ments. The drums are decked out with
a healthy portion of tambourine and
follow an upbeat tempo almost cer-
tain to shake a leg or two.
The most distinct aspect of the Kings’
sound would have to be the voice of
the lead singer, Caleb Followill. It can
only be described as raspy, possessing
an accent that one can only imagine
was formed in the deepest and darkest
regions of the South. Although the new
album takes an even more dramatic
step away from this wonderful ruckus
of a sound for which they had become
famous, that’s not entirely a criticism.
There are still some catchy tunes that
might start your fingers tapping and
your feet stomping. The single “Sex on
Fire” stands out from the rest, but the
other gems are few and far between.
The vast majority have a very bright
and clean soft rock tone about them,
exemplified by the song “Crawl,” which
could almost certainly pass for a U2
song hastily recorded while Bono was
getting over an awful cold.
The main differences between “Only
by the Night” and the band’s previous
albums are the tone of the music and
the style of Caleb’s vocals. As stat-
ed earlier, the tone sounds very pret-
ty and pop-esque, with a decidedly
“produced” quality about it. The vast
majority of songs are undistinguish-
able from each other, as the lyrics are
just as unremarkable as the music.
Where frontman Followill’s unique
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album cover again. Someone go get some
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mix of whiny singing and nasal preach-
ing would have usually rendered most
of the lyrics impossible to understand,
this time around his attempts to hold
melodies and hit high notes make the
songs easier to decipher at the cost of
being incredibly boring.
The fact of the matter is that Caleb
Followill is not a singer in the classical,
or any other, sense. The only reason no
one questioned his singing before is
that most don’t even identify it as sing-
ing, per se. He had perfected the scum-
bag Southern blues singer schtick, but
for some reason now seems to be aim-
ing to conquer the realm of pop/rock.
Though “Only by the Night” is a step in
this direction, he most certainly does
not accomplish this goal.
The good news is that the album
does start to grow on you after a few lis-
tens. Songs like “Manhattan” and “17”
begin to sound just a little bit more
like the older Kings. Overall, however,
“Only by the Night” stands testament
to the bands fatigue accumulating over
the years, a trend which, sadly, shows
prominently in their music.
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Arts & Living
Exquisite details breathe life into
enormous stone reliefs in ‘Empire’
EMPIRE
continued from page 5
most impressive pieces are the reliefs,
which are stunning not only because
of their large size, but also because
of the precision with which they are
carved. These works closely depict the
clothing, hairstyles and muscles of fig-
ures, and their sumptuous detail gives
fascinating insight into the wealthy
empire that at one point controlled all
territory from the Mediterranean Sea
to the Persian Gulf.
The kings of the empire built elabo-
rate palaces with walls covered in
stone reliefs that portrayed deities,
protective spirits, soldiers, ceremo-
nial acts and scenes from the lives of
the kings. They were brightly painted
(although the paint is now almost
entirely lost) and imposing, so that all
who visited the palace were made to
understand the daunting power and
fantastic wealth of the leader.
A piece of particular interest, “Head
of a Bearded Man,” (Reign of Sargon
II, 710-705 B.C.) is displayed in the
first room of the exhibition. As the
wall description indicates, it is part of
a carved procession that depicts men
bringing offerings to the king in the
Royal Palace of Khorsabad. The man’s
facial features and beard are precisely
carved, creating a complex and rivet-
ing portrait in stone. The relief is so
realistic that it is almost as if the figure
(of a big, scary Assyrian guy, nonethe-
less) is about to emerge from the
stone depiction.
The first room gives background
on the pieces in the exhibit, with
an introduction describing the exca-
vation campaign by Austen Henry
Layard in Iraq during the 1840s and
1850s for the British Museum. The
works in this room are among the
most striking of the entire show and
include a statue of King Ashurnasirpal
II, which is well lit and situated on its
original pedestal.
7
Of the rooms that follow, the exhib-
it’s most impressive are the final two.
The second and fourth rooms dis-
play bowls, vases, small sculptures,
furniture decorations, seals and clay
tablets that are interesting in their
own right but are not as dramatic as
the reliefs and objects displayed in
the other spaces.
The relief is so realistic that
it is almost as if the figure
(of a big, scary Assyrian
guy, nonetheless) is about
to emerge from the stone
depiction.
The ivory carving in the second-
to-last room, “The Lioness and the
African” (899-700 B.C.), studded
with gold and jewels, further shows
the Assyrian’s knack for detail and
is engaging because of its lifelike
appearance. In addition, the reliefs
in the final room are particularly
captivating, including “Royal Lion
Hunt” (Reign of Ashurnasirpal II,
875-860 B.C.), which depicts the cer-
emonial process and impressively
displays elaborately detailed figures
suspended in motion.
Assyrian art possesses great cul-
tural significance and has become
even more important because of
the tragic disappearance of so many
of its pieces. This art is truly cap-
tivating because of its details and
its lifelike portrayals, and “Art and
Empire: Treasures from the Assyrian
Empire in the British Museum” does
a fine job of presenting the works
of this grand period. The exhibit,
overall, is well laid out, dramatically
lit and certainly merits a visit to this
already-esteemed institution.
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EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY
Robert S. Silverblatt Political posturing gone awry
Editor-in-Chief Yesterday afternoon, the House fell out of Washington, and fast. Not only nation — who saw polls showing wan-
Editorial 12 votes short of the majority needed is that kind of thinking offensive and ing public support for the bailout and
to pass an unprecedented and con- unbecoming of any adult, but it also ran the other way is revolting.
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors troversial $700 billion bailout package places the financial futures of ordinary These congressmen will scurry back
Kristin Gorman designed to avert the looming finan- Americans in serious jeopardy. to their districts, flush with success at
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors cial disaster. The (at times) biparti- But before you at home start mix- having dismantled a bipartisan solu-
Jason Richards san cooperation on the issue quickly ing tar and stockpiling feathers, it is tion to a fast-approaching economic
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor crumbled as the Democrats castigat- unlikely that this was the real reason catastrophe, and brag to their constitu-
ed the two-thirds of Republicans who for the “nay” votes yesterday. Elections ents that they have served the public
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors voted against the measure, and John for every single House seat are coming will. In reality, they have served only
Pranai Cheroo
Nina Ford Boehner, the House minority leader, up in November, and the list of con- themselves. They will blame an extra-
Ben Gittleson blamed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “parti- gressmen who voted “no” reads like a neous amendment or the opposing
Gillian Javetski san” speech for turning off Republican Who’s Who of endangered incumbents. party or Wall Street greed or a social-
Jeremy White
congressmen. Certainly, there were some represen- ist advance, but they have sold their
Alexandra Bogus Assistant News Editors The Daily is not impressed. tatives who voted against the measure country down the river in exchange for
Michael Del Moro First of all, if congressmen were for reasons of principle: Democrats another two years in Congress.
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor so hurt by Pelosi’s speech critical of because it would bail out fat-cat Leaders from both parties have
the Bush administration’s policies CEOs who ripped off the public, and acknowledged that something must be
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors that they decided to vote against the Republicans because it violated their done about this crisis and will get to
Robin Carol measure, then they deserve a swift firm belief in a free market. These votes work hashing out a new deal when the
Kerianne Okie
Charlotte Steinway kick in the teeth. Representatives who are understandable, and we at the Daily House reconvenes on Thursday.
thought that torpedoing a major finan- can respect them even if we disagree. We can only hope that, this time,
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors cial bailout during an economic crisis But the wanton cowardice of those representatives decide to work for the
Meghan Pesch
would serve as a suitable band-aid representatives — men and women people — and not just for their own
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor for their wounded pride need to get tasked with doing what is best for the reelections.
Jessica Bal Arts Editors
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Sarah Cowan DON WRIGHT
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Emma Bushnell Assistant Arts Editors
Matthew DiGirolamo
Jyll Saskin Executive Op-Ed Editor
Thomas Eager Executive Sports Editor
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Evans Clinchy
Philip Dear
David Heck
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Daniel Simon
Presidential debate obscures genuine issues
Amani Smathers by Andi Berlin Saturday morning with a number of dis- the fact that Cheney appeared more stately
Steven Smith Arizona Daily Wildcat honest and misleading tactics to prove their and confident (despite whatever failed poli-
Katie Tausanovitch domination: McCain’s side faulted Sen. cies he was endorsing, which is beside the
Adam Raczkowski Executive Technical Manager Our political biases, personalities and Obama for seemingly pausing before saying point) and cast doubt on Edwards' motives
sensory perceptions may lead us to declare the name of a dead soldier he was invoking; for being second in command.
Michael Vastola Technical Manager a winner from Friday’s presidential debate, Obama’s side faulted McCain for not using But at the time there were just as many
John Sotherland Executive Online Editor but we really should know better. We don't the words “middle class,” which was in turn assorted opinions as there are now. In real-
know who won, the media doesn’t really followed by McCain faulting Obama for not ity, it wasn’t that clear at the time who won
Louise Galuski Online Editors know who won, the obnoxious woman you using the word “victory” when referring to the debate. Who knows how many views
Hena Kapadia
Minah Kim overheard last night doesn't know who won Iraq; McCain countered again by compiling have been silenced by the forced simplicity
— no matter what her Tiger Beer said — all of the instances where Obama agreed of time and the spin machine?
Matt Skibinski New Media Editor and the candidates themselves probably with him, God forbid; and Obama's side The only way to really get a hold on the
Kelly Moran Webmaster don’t know either. set its sights to the future by mocking Gov. specifics of the debate is to ignore the furor
The only people who do know, obviously, Sarah Palin. surrounding the issues and develop your
Caryn Horowitz Executive Copy Editor are their respective campaign staffs. It’s no secret that each side has a vested own criteria to decide who won. Perhaps
Grace Lamb-Atkinson Copy Editors
Despite predilections, the Republican interest in winning, but it's kind of disheart- you can look at things like who lied the
Michelle Hochberg campaign actually figured it out last week ening how well this crap actually works. most. (According to Factcheck.org, both
Ben Smith when they announced Sen. John McCain The same New York Times article that had their share of lies.) You can look at
Christopher Snyder as the winner, before he even decided to go detailed all of these spin strategies explained who appeared the most confident or who
Elisha Sum
Ricky Zimmerman through with the debate. A screenshot of an their consequences: “While such criticisms expressed himself the best. Or – and this
online ad was leaked on Friday morning, may seem, on first glance, trivial, they are is the kicker – you can actually consider
Brianna Beehler Assistant Copy Editors featuring robot McCain with that goofy, the kind of issues ... that can catch fire and whether you agree with the policies the
Casey Burrows
Alison Lisnow forced smile in front of an American Flag influence public perception,” the article candidates discussed. (If, of course, you
Rachel Oldfield and the words “McCain WINS DEBATE!” said. “They can also put a candidate off understand what they said behind all the
Mary Jo Pham underneath. guard for the next debate.” muddle.)
Lily Zahn Although embarrassing, the incident No matter how hard the candidates try, When we watch the remaining show-
does nothing but publicize the rampant the complexity of the political landscape downs, it might be beneficial to approach
BUSINESS spin machine on both sides of the fence – a and the debates themselves make it impos- them from the viewpoint that nobody can
Malcolm Charles Executive Business Director
spin machine that is by no means new. sible to really win until hours or possibly really win, despite what their supporters
Perhaps a precursor, the “Kerry Won” years down the road. The spin machine will say and what the press will say later. If
Dwijo Goswami Receivables Manager online campaign in 2004 demonstrated influences the press, which ultimately gives you look at it like that, it’s not about who
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that people who saw his ad after the debate the verdict on a complicated and unde- won the debate, but whose ideas will win
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Tufts looks to upcoming championship
Junior co-captain Nick Welch raced to a fourth-place finish at the Codfish Bowl on Saturday.
MEN’S XC
continued from page 16
Welch said. “Our goals for the weekend had
less to do with who we were racing and much
more to do with how we were racing.”
The Codfish Bowl was host to a wider
range of teams than those Tufts normally
competes against.
“This race actually had more non-Div. III
teams,” Barron said. “On some level, the com-
petition was a little higher. We would have
seen a few more of the Div. III teams that
we compete against at the end of the year at
Conn., but there were still some good teams
there this weekend.”
The team now has two full weeks to pre-
pare for the All New England Championships,
which will be held back at Franklin Park on
Oct. 11. The Jumbos will face a much broader
array of talent, as they will compete against
top New England runners from Div. I, II and
III schools.
“[All New Englands] is going to be a com-
pletely different race just because there are
going to be so many more people in the
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front of the race,” Barron said. “I think that [a
much larger field of runners] will increase the
intensity, which will give the guys another gear
that they might not have had at a sloppy wet
Franklin Park this weekend.”
“The field on Saturday was much smaller
than the race will be in two weeks, where we
will be going up against something like over
300 runners from the best schools in all of New
England from all divisions, so the dynamics of
the race will be different,” Welch added
The Jumbos also view the upcoming race
as a great opportunity, especially for the
younger runners, to become accustomed
to running at a higher, more intense level of
competition.
“In a bigger race like that you have to kind
of get out harder and put yourself in a good
position earlier because it’s difficult to move
up with so many guys around you,” Welch
said. “A race like New Englands is a really good
chance for us, especially for the younger guys
on the team, to get some big race experience
because that is what it is going to be like later
in the season at Regionals and Nationals.”
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continued from page 16
taken first in the other two competitions. At
the Trinity Invitational, McNamara topped
the field of 175 and came in 21 seconds
ahead of the second-place finisher. The next
week at the Tufts Invitational she did even
better, beating the closest competitor by 25
seconds.
“Even though Stephanie’s a sophomore,
she’s our front runner,” senior tri-captain
Susan Allegretti said. “She’s a leader by
default. She leads by example and her work
ethic sets the tone for the rest of the team.
She’s had so much success, and she contin-
ues to get better; we’re so proud of her.”
At the Codfish Bowl, McNamara’s time
of 18:27 was less than 20 ticks behind the
top two finishers from Greater Boston TC:
Sarah Donahue at 18:15 and Emily Kroshus
at 18:11. Greater Boston TC placed four run-
ners in the top six spots.
“Greater Boston has a lot of former Div.
I athletes who live around the area and
want to continue running, so those kids
are generally really good,” Morwick said.
“[McNamara] hung with the leaders; they
just pulled away the last 600, 800 meters.
It was good for her to match up against
people with more racing experience and
see what she could do. They took it out
really hard; it was too fast a pace to start, I
think, but she did well under the circum-
stances. I think she knows what not to do
for next time.”
Sophomore Amy Wilfert also had a
strong day for the Jumbos, coming in 11th
place with a time of 19:11. Freshman Anya
Price came in third for Tufts and 26th over-
all, while senior Amy Hopkins and Allegretti
For final duel match of the
fall, Jumbos host Beavers
MEN’S TENNIS
continued from page 16
rubberized composite — provided
for different playing conditions.
“I think that for me and Paul,
being inside helps us out a lot,”
Landers said. “I rely on my serve
and Paul is great at net, so it’s good
for us to have a quick game.”
“The indoor courts there are
faster than their outdoor courts, so
the serve was more of a weapon, a
little bit harder to see,” Carucci
added. “I think … as a team, we
probably would have done better
outside, but being inside it is what
it is, everyone is dealing with the
conditions. For doubles teams, I
think the faster surface helps us,
but just for singles I think the
slower surface is better.”
One key outcome of the whole
tournament experience for
the Jumbos was the ability to
scout opposing NESCAC squads
months before squaring off in
the spring. And what they saw
there certainly suggests a tough
season ahead against confer-
ence foes.
“This was a really good recruit-
ing class all across the board,”
Carucci said. “I would say the
top seven in the NESCAC all got
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finished 31st and 32nd, respectively.
“There was a big gap between our top
two and the rest of the team and that really
has to tighten up if we’re going to be suc-
cessful the rest of the season,” Morwick
said. “The pack was almost a minute and a
half behind our second runner, which isn’t
good, especially on a fast 5k course. It’ll only
get worse on a longer course.”
“We have a very young team, which is
not a bad thing at all, but it’s certainly some-
thing you have to work with,” Allegretti
added. “It’s important to set a good example
and encourage them to stay with certain
people. It’s just really encouraging in a race
when you see all your teammates running
around you. I can’t really explain; it’s an
amazing feeling to have.”
After taking next weekend off from com-
petition, the Jumbos will move on to the All
New England Championship, which is also
being held at Franklin Park in Boston. Last
year, the team finished 14th out of 44 teams
at the race.
“We haven’t had to put much pressure
in years past, but the criteria for Nationals
has changed, so this will be one of the
meets they look at for an at-large bid if we
don’t finish in the top two at Regionals,”
Morwick said. “How we do in this meet will
affect how the committee selects who goes
to Nationals. It’s important, and it’s tough
because it’s early to try to race hard. I’m glad
the whole team got to see the course this
week; that will be really helpful.”
“This race will show us where we are
against some of the best teams in Div. III
and Div. I, plus it may count towards our
Nationals bid,” Allegretti added. “It’s been so
close before that it could be the difference.”
at least two very good recruits.
There were freshmen from each
one of the top schools that did
really well in the tournament,
and watching their matches you
could see a lot of extremely com-
petitive tennis.
“It’s not going to get any easier
for us,” he continued. “I think we
have a better team this year than
we did last year, but I think all the
other teams are better too, so it
should be competitive.”
With ITAs behind them, the
Jumbos will host the Babson
Beavers tomorrow for the squad’s
second and final dual match of
the fall. Tufts has won at least
nine straight matches against the
non-conference Beavers.
“I think they have some pretty
decent players at the top, but
there’s a pretty big falloff after
that, so I think as a team we
should be able to manage the
situation,” Landers said.
“It’s just a good time to get
some freshmen some experi-
ences in matches that don’t
affect us as much,” Carucci
added. “None of the freshmen
in these matches should have
any problems playing, and it’s
good for their confidence.”
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Browne, McCooey Golf

bow out in doubles Tufts disappoints with eighth at NESCACs

WOMEN’S TENNIS
continued from page 16
the Jumbos a clean sweep of both the singles
and doubles titles as the duo pushed Gibson
and Reich into a nail-biting doubles final. The
Williams tandem was one game away from an
easy victory after jumping out to a 7-3 lead,
but Browne and McCooey refused to go qui-
etly, storming all the way back to tie the score
at 7-7 before eventually forcing a tiebreak.
Gibson and Reich prevailed in the end,
however, taking the tiebreak 7-4 to earn the
doubles crown. Despite the setback, the tour-
nament was a positive experience for Browne
and McCooey, who put up a strong showing in
their first time paired together.
“Meghan and I just started playing together
this year, but we’re playing so well and it gives
us a lot of hope and excitement for the rest of
the season,” Browne said. “It’s always really
upsetting to lose, but we’re really proud of the
way we played together and the way that we
fought. We didn’t hand it to them — they really
had to earn it, and in the end, it was a matter
of just a couple points. It’s definitely important
for us to [put] that into perspective.”
On their way to the title match, Browne and
McCooey played in an equally thrilling semi-
final against Amherst’s second-seeded team
of sophomore Natasha Brown and junior
Brittany Berckes. Like the title match, the Tufts
pair was forced to come from behind, this
time after trailing 5-0 in a decisive tiebreak.
Just two points from elimination, however,
Browne and McCooey shifted the momen-
tum, eventually taking an epic tiebreak 13-11.
“It was thrilling,” Bayard said. “One thing
I knew was that Julia and Meghan had the
composure to win the tiebreaker. There was
a point when they looked at each other and
their body language was so clear — they knew
they had it. They were just that confident. The
next couple points, they went after it at net
and they won it. It was just really exciting.”
Sophomore Edwina Stewart and freshman
Jen Lavet were the Jumbos’ other representa-
tives at MIT, reaching the second round of
both the singles and doubles tournaments.
The fifth-seeded McCooey also participated
in the singles tournament, falling in a 7-6 (4),
6-4 upset loss to unseeded junior Brett Davis
of Bowdoin in the second round.
The Jumbos will next take the court on
Thursday when they host the Engineers in the
first of their two dual matches slated for the
fall season. The Jumbos have had little trouble
with MIT in recent years, picking up 8-1 victo-
ries over the team each of the past two falls.
Even with its tremendous success over the
weekend, the team still sees room for improve-
ment and views the match as an opportunity
to continue honing its skills.
“I’m hoping that in doubles, each of the
teams is going to execute the things we’ve
been working on in practice,” Bayard said.
“We’ve been doing a lot of doubles work, just
working on … controlling the net and playing
aggressive doubles.
“And in singles,” she continued, “I’m hop-
ing that they play high-percentage points and,
at the same time, have the guts to attack on
the right ball. So, basically, I’m hoping they’ll
play some smart tennis.”
by Danny Joseph 593, while the Bantams and the Continentals
Senior Staff Writer rounded out the top three with scores of 594
and 606, respectively. The course was play-
While the Tufts golf team was able to escape ing fair, perhaps even easier than normal
most of the lousy weather that battered the according to the team, so the Jumbos find
Boston area this weekend, the Jumbos were nowhere to lay the blame but squarely upon
GOLF their own shoulders.
“The course was nice, and in theory, it is set
NESCAC Qualifier, Saturday-Sunday
up well for our game,” junior Brett Hershman
said. “There were several par fives we could
8th out of 10 teams attack, and also three or four short par fours
where you could hit a driver or a three wood to
11. Phil Haslett (153) within 100 yards. We could then attack the pins
25. Luke Heffernon (156) with wedges and short irons. The whole team
32. Brett Hershman (160) had opportunities with these easy approach
43. Dan Moll (168) shots, but we just couldn’t take advantage.”
48. Benjie Moll (177) “The course was playing fair,” sophomore
Luke Heffernan added. “The greens were run-
not so quick to dodge the stiff competition ning pure, and we also got a big break with the
that blocked their path toward victory at this nice conditions.”
weekend’s NESCAC qualifier tournament. Senior co-captain Phil Haslett continued his
Despite solid play from a few Jumbos, the strong season play, posting a 76 on Saturday
team finished eighth out of 10 conference and a 77 on Sunday for an 11-over-par 153,
teams and in turn failed to qualify for the good for an 11th-place tie overall. Haslett’s 153
conference championships in the spring. The was 12 strokes behind individual winner Reid
top four finishers of the tournament, which Longley of Trinity. Longley, with a score of 141,
was held at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course one shot under par, was the only player who
in Middlebury, Vt., was the host Middlebury, finished the weekend in the red.
Trinity, Hamilton and Williams, giving those Heffernan also played well for Tufts, record-
teams the right to compete in the NESCAC ing a 79 and a 77 for a total of 156, while
Championships in the spring. Hershman carded an 81 and a 79 for a total of
Tufts shot a cumulative 319 on Saturday 160. Sophomore Dan Moll shot a two-day 168,
and a 318 on Sunday for a two-day total of while his older brother and senior co-captain
637, 26 strokes behind fourth-place finisher Benji Moll notched a 177 on the weekend.
Williams. The Panthers shot a team total of Last year at the NESCAC Qualifier hosted
SCHEDULE | Sept. 30 - Oct. 6
TUE WED THu FRI
Football
vs. Gordon 4
Field Hockey
p.m.
Women’s Soccer vs. Babson
4 p.m.
Men’s
Soccer
Cross Country
vs. Endicott
Volleyball 5 p.m., vs.
Elmhurst
7 p.m.
vs. Babson
Men’s Tennis 3:30 p.m.
at Midd. Doubles
Women’s Tennis vs. MIT
4 p.m.
JumboCast Volleyball
by Hamilton, the Jumbos finished in fifth,
just one place removed and seven strokes
behind fourth-place finisher Williams, com-
ing up short of a spot in the Championship
field last spring.
“We’re a little disappointed we didn’t
improve on last year’s result,” Heffernan said.
“We also need to get a better performance
from the Moll Rats [Benji and Dan] in the
next tournament.”
“We had really hoped to sneak into the
top four, it was a big goal of ours,” Dan Moll
added. “A couple of us struggled so it was a bit
of a letdown. But I think we can learn from
this weekend that we just have to keep grind-
ing no matter what happens or how bad we
are playing.”
The team will look to rebound at next
week’s Husson Tournament at the Penobscot
Valley course in Orono, Maine, where Tufts is
the defending champion.
“Our confidence should be high as defend-
ing champs,” Hershman said. “We have to put
this weekend behind us. Every new round has
potential, so we can’t dwell on this week.”
Heffernan was bold with his prediction
and said that he is “issuing a 100-percent
guarantee that we will win the Husson
Tournament.”
Dan Moll, on the other hand, was a bit
more reserved about the team’s prospects
when play starts this Sunday.
“Hopefully we can bounce back and if we
play the way we are capable of we can take
down the Husson tournament,” he said.
Sat sun mon
at Bowdoin
1 p.m.
at Amherst
11 a.m.
at Amherst
11 a.m.
at Amherst
2 p.m.
vs. Union 12
p.m., vs. MIT
4 p.m.
Tournament
Volleyball

StatISTICS | Standings
Field Hockey Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball Football NCAA Div. III Field Hockey
(6-0, 4-0 NESCAC) (4-0-0, 3-0-0 NESCAC) (4-2-1, 1-2-0 NESCAC) (13-0, 3-0 NESCAC) (2-0, 2-0 NESCAC) (Sept. 23, 2008)
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
L T W L PF PA Points (First-place votes)
W L W L T W L T W L T W L T W W L W L
Amherst 2 0 61 30 1. Bowdoin, 782 (29)
Bowdoin 4 0 8 0 0 Tufts 3 0 0 4 0 0 Williams 3 0 0 4 1 0 Amherst 3 0 12 1
Trinity 2 0 37 24 2. Middlebury, 691 (2)
Tufts 4 0 6 0 0 Williams 3 0 0 6 0 0 Middlebury 2 0 1 4 0 1 Tufts 3 0 13 0
Tufts 2 0 54 21
1 0 Williams 3 1 9 7 3. TCNJ, 687 (1)
Middlebury 3 0 0 0 Amherst 2 0 1 2 1 2 Trinity 2 1 0 6 Colby 1 1 24 47
3 0 6 0 0 2 1 Conn. Coll. 2 1 9 6 4. Johns Hopkins, 678 (5)
Trinity Middlebury 2 1 0 3 3 2 Wesleyan 1 1 1 2 Hamilton 1 1 23 37
Middlebury 2 1 6 5 5. Messiah, 627 (1)
Amherst 2 2 7 3 0 Wesleyan 1 1 1 3 1 1 Amherst 1 2 0 3 2 0 Middlebury 1 1 37 52
Wesleyan 2 1 10 4 6. Ursinus, 523 (1)
Williams 1 2 3 3 0 Bowdoin 0 1 2 2 1 3 Bates 1 2 0 3 2 0 Williams 1 1 45 20
Trinity 1 2 7 5 7. Rowan, 507 (1)
Conn. Coll 1 3 3 4 0 Colby 1 2 0 4 2 0 Bowdoin 1 2 0 2 3 0 Bates 0 2 14 51
Bates 0 2 5 8
0 3 2 4 0 2 0 3 0 Bowdoin 0 2 52 73 8. Lebanon Valley, 491
Colby Conn. Coll 0 2 0 3 2 0 Colby 1 2 Bowdoin 0 2 7 4
3 0 Wesleyan 0 2 21 37 9. Salisbury, 490 (1)
Bates 0 4 2 5 0 Trinity 0 2 0 4 2 0 Conn. Coll. 1 2 0 2 Colby 0 2 5 4
0 4 2 5 0 0 3 0 1 4 0 Tufts 1 2 0 4 2 1 Hamilton 0 4 5 8 10. Tufts, 445
Wesleyan Bates

G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. TD N.E. Div. III Women's
T. Brown 11 2 24 C. Cadigan 3 0 6 D. Schoening 3 1 7 C. Updike 115 4 W. Forde 46 249 5.4 3 Soccer
S. Nolet R. Coleman 2 1 5 S. Filocco 83 14 K. Anderson 15 70 4.7 1 (Sept. 23, 2008)
A. Russo 5 5 15 2 0 4 D. Ferguson 8 66 8.2 0
M. Kelly 6 2 14 J. Love-Nichols 1 0 2 M. Fitzgerald 1 1 3 D. Joyce-Mendive 82 0 1. Williams
B. Helgeson 71 1
B. Holiday 2 1 5 A. VonPutt- 1 0 2 A. Lach 1 1 3 K. Denniston 59 12 Passing Pct. Yds TD INT 2. Wheaton
M. Burke 2 0 4 kammer P. Doherty 1 0 2 L. Nicholas 53 0 A. Fucillo 57.1 373 3 0 3. Western Conn. State
L. Griffith 2 0 4 F. Gamal 0 2 2 B. Green 1 0 2 D. Feiger 31 9 4. Tufts
I. Lewnard 2 0 4 A. Michael 0 1 1 N. Muakkassa 0 1 1 Receiving No. Yds Avg. TD
S. Black 7 192 27.4 1 5. Springfield
M. Scholtes 1 1 3 L. O’Connor 0 1 1 C. Flaherty 0 1 1 Defensive B Digs
1 N. Goldstein 0 205 D. Halas 6 66 11.0 2 6. Amherst
M. Kutcher 1 1 3 A. Maxwell 0 0 0 P. DeGregorio 0 1
M. Ripecky 0 129 7. Eastern Conn. State
D. Feiger 11 124 Defense Tack INT Sack 8. Bowdoin
Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% R. Crisco 15.0 0 0
S. Filocco 10 117 9. Colby
M. Zak 2 6 .750 H. Jacobs 0 7 1.00 D. McKeon 5 28 .848 C. Spieler 2 109 A. Perry 11.0 1 0
K. Hyder 3 5 .625 K. Minnehan 0 2 1.00 P. Tonelli 0 4 1.00 C. Updike 7 35 T. Reynoso 8.0 0 0 10. Salem State
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Men’s Tennis
Jumbos get look at spring competition at ITAs
by Thomas Eager
Daily Editorial Board
Despite failing to advance any player
beyond the second round of the singles
or doubles brackets, the men’s ten-
nis team knows that its participation
in the ITA Regional Championships at
Williams over the weekend was cer-
tainly time well-spent.
In a tournament that featured the
top players from the region in Div. III,
including an abundance of competition
from the NESCAC, the Jumbos were
able to preview the type of opponents
that they will face once dual matches
in conference commence this spring.
Based on what they saw and how they
performed, the Tufts players will have
their work cut out for them during the
winter offseason, especially consider-
ing the need to compensate for the
difference between the lighter fall play
and the more difficult spring.
“The tournament really epitomizes
the best in Div. III tennis in New England,
and the NESCAC’s the most competitive
Div. III conference in the country as it
is,” said sophomore Tony Carucci, who
was the only Jumbo singles player to win
his first-round match. “So we’re basi-
cally playing a tournament with the best
players in the country in our division —
and it’s only the best players that get into
it — so there are no really easy matches.
There are probably between five and 10
kids in the tournament who shouldn’t
be in it, but on the whole, though, it’s
extremely competitive.”
Carucci, one of three singles players
representing Tufts, handily took care of
Eastern Nazarene College junior Jack
Sahlman 6-2, 6-1 before drawing the
tournament’s sixth seed, Middlebury
sophomore Andrew Peters, in the second
round and falling 6-2, 6-3.
“[Peters is] very good,” Carucci said.
“He had a very big serve, so it was just too
hard to break him, and I put too much
pressure on my serve and I ended up los-
ing the match.”
Junior Andrew Rosen and first-year
Sam Laber also competed in the singles
bracket, though neither survived the
first round, with Laber succumbing to
Williams senior Rick Devlin 6-2, 6-4
and Rosen battling Middlebury sopho-
more Rich Bonfiglio to a 7-6 (10), 6-2
loss.
Top Ten | Turnarounds in Sports
Breaking news: The Tampa Bay Rays are
really good. Like, a lot better than they were
last year, and the year before that, and the year
before that, and … you get the idea.
It’s been the hot-button topic in baseball
all year, as the Rays have gone from 66 wins
last season to 97 this year and their first
playoff berth. As the Rays open their post-
season run Thursday afternoon (opponent to
be announced), it’s given us at the Daily an
opportunity to reflect. Here are 10 more of the
great turnaround stories in sports history:
10. 1967 Red Sox. In ‘66, the American
League standings were a historical anomaly
of sorts — the Yankees finished dead last
in the 10-team league, with the Red Sox a
half-game ahead in ninth. Then came the
“Impossible Dream,” as Triple Crown winner
Carl Yastrzemski led the Sox to the ‘67 World
Series. They fell short against Bob Gibson’s
Cardinals.
9. 2004-05 Suns. Call it the “Nash factor”
— the Suns’ acquisition of the soon-to-be
two-time MVP transformed the franchise right
away. The Suns went from a 29-win season to
a 62-20 finish, a top seed in the West and an
MVP for Nash in his first year in town. As for a
Finals berth, though, we’re still waiting…
8. 2006 Tigers. In 2003 the Tigers were a
horrific 43-119 ... eww. Yet three years later,
All-Star outfielder Magglio Ordonez, gritty
manager Jim Leyland and Hall of Fame catcher
Pudge Rodriguez had all come to town, and
the team battled its way to its first AL pennant
since 1984.
7. 2007-08 Penguins. Long gone are the days
when Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr roamed
the ice at the Igloo in the Steel City. After rum-
blings abounded of moving the franchise to a
new city, the 2005 draft shifted the Penguin
The Tufts Daily
Junior Andrew Rosen formed part of Tufts’ singles lineup at the tournament.
“Andrew had a very tough opponent,
and he knew he would be a very tough
match,” Carucci said. “Unfortunately,
they went to a first-set tiebreak and
Andrew had a few set points, but he
couldn’t end up winning that first set,
and I think if he had won it, he prob-
ably would have ended up winning the
match.”
“Andrew … had a terrible draw,” junior
Dan Landers said. “The way he was able
to compete against one of the best teams
of the country in Middlebury, and one of
their best players, definitely showed that
we can compete against them.”
On the doubles side, both Tufts teams
managed to post first-round victories.
Landers and sophomore Paul Kohnstann
overcame their Wheaton opponents
8-5 in a superset before losing to the
Middlebury duo of Bonfiglio and fresh-
hockey landscape as they selected “Sid the
Kid” Crosby first overall. The team went from
the cellar to the top by the 2008 playoffs as
they advanced all the way to the Stanley Cup
Finals before bowing out to the Red Wings.
6. 1997-98 Spurs. Thanks to perhaps the
luckiest roll of a ping-pong ball in NBA history,
the Spurs were able to draft a 21-year-old kid
named Tim Duncan out of Wake Forest. The
result was an immediate 36-win upswing and
an NBA title the following season. Talk about
a good lottery! David Robinson should have
gotten injured more often.
5. 1999 Diamondbacks. The expansion
D-Backs burst onto the scene in 1998 with an
expectedly crappy 65-97 record. Fast forward
to the next fall to find the Arizonans with a
sparkling 100-62 mark, and the Big Unit slay-
ing every NL hitter in sight. Despite a tough
NLDS loss to the Mets that season, the D-Backs
wouldn’t be denied as they took home their
first World Series victory two years later.
4. 1999 Rams. Once one of the sorriest fran-
chises in the NFL, the Rams made a stunning
transformation into the “Greatest Show on
Turf” as they rode second-year “Marshall,
Marshall, Marshall” Faulk and journeyman
quarterback Kurt “Who is this Guy” Warner.
After finishing an abysmal 4-12 the season
prior, the Rams went to a dominating 13-3
and outlasted the Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl
XXXIV. The team swept the season’s slate of
offensive awards and the offense led the NFL
in total yardage and scoring, while the defense
limited the opposition to an NFL-low 74.3
yards per game.
3. Jennifer Capriati. After turning profes-
sional at age 14, Capriati reached the semifi-
nals at the French Open, Wimbledon and the
US Open and even went on to win the gold
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man Eric Vehovec 8-4. A first-year pair-
ing comprised of Laber and Kai Victoria
cruised 8-1 over a team from Roger
Williams before they fell to Middlebury’s
Peters and senior Conrad Olson.
“I played against a pretty strong
Middlebury doubles team, and it was
5-4 and we didn’t capitalize on a few
opportunities where if we had, the match
would have gone the other way, so it’s
good to see that I can compete at that
level,” Landers said.
The stormy weather that drenched New
England over the weekend necessitated a
move from the outdoor courts to Williams’
two indoor facilities, the Towne Field
House and the Lansing Chapman Rink.
The two indoor facilities — especially the
ice rink, which was covered with a temporary
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MCT
medal in Barcelona in 1992. She later put her
tennis career on hold and went through per-
sonal challenges, including an arrest for mari-
juana possession, but Capriati would return to
the tour and go on to win three major titles
and become No. 1 in the world.
2. 1991 Twins and Braves. The classic “worst
to first” story — for the first time in World
Series history, two teams that had finished last
the previous year were vying for October glory.
NL MVP Terry Pendleton brought the Braves all
the way to an extra-inning Game 7 before Jack
Morris legendarily out-dueled John Smoltz,
pitching a 10-inning shutout to win it all.
1. 2007-08 Celtics. “What does ‘top of the
world’ feel like, Kevin?” With the acquisitions
of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and a host of sup-
porting cast members, the Celtics engineered
the biggest turnaround in NBA history, going
from the NBA’s second-worst in 2006-07 to
a title this June. If that’s not an inspiration to
cellar-dwellers everywhere, then what is?
— by Evans Clinchy, Thomas Eager and
Scott Janes
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Jeremy Greenhouse | Follow the Money
On the
margin
V
alue is all relative.
One of the key concepts in eco-
nomics is the marginal princi-
ple, which essentially states that
value is defined by the additional benefit
over the additional cost. In baseball, that
means general managers must assess a
player’s worth in terms of salary and in
terms of his potential replacement. Now
that baseball’s regular season has officially
come to a close, we can take a more criti-
cal look at players in order to better under-
stand their value.
Thinking on the margin is the rea-
son that durable, well-rounded posi-
tion players and pitchers who can eat
innings are vital. They are harder to find
or replace than a designated hitter who
hits a bunch of home runs or a reliever
who throws 60 innings.
When determining a player’s value,
defensive position has to be taken into
account. Catcher, shortstop and center-
field are much more demanding and dif-
ficult positions than designated hitter and
first base. Nevertheless, Twins catcher
Joe Mauer and the Marlins’ Ramirez can
absolutely rake, making them a couple
of the most valuable assets in the game.
Both have on-base percentages 70 points
higher than the major-league averages at
their respective positions. For reference,
MVP candidate Ryan Howard’s .339 OBP is
15 points below the Major League average
first baseman.
Manny Ramirez may have better offen-
sive statistics than Hanley, but anybody
could play left field with the range of
Eddy Curry. Although HanRam’s defense
is mediocre, a shortstop is worth con-
siderably more than a corner outfielder
defensively, all other things being equal.
Plus, the average corner outfielder has an
on-base percentage 20 points higher than
the average catcher or shortstop, which
makes Manny’s accomplishments rela-
tively less impressive. It is easier to find an
adequate replacement for Manny, as the
Red Sox did with Jason Bay, than to replace
Hanley, who will likely be the second $200
million man for this reason.
The Mariners set a great example of
exactly how not to assess a team. Over
the offseason, the 88-win M’s believed
they had a chance to compete for a play-
off spot despite being outscored over
the course of the season. They gave a
contract extension to Kenji Johjima, an
aging catcher, when AAA replacement
Jeff Clement was already a superior play-
er. Even more egregiously, the Mariners
compromised their best player’s value by
moving Ichiro from center-field to right-
field. Now, they are the first 100-loss team
with a $100 million payroll.
The Mariners also signed Carlos Silva
for four years and $48 million. His 6.46
ERA is worse than the average AAA pitcher
would put up in the majors. The Twins’
and Marlins’ rotations, on the other hand,
have come entirely from within their
farm system. Smaller markets stay as far
away from the free agent market as pos-
sible because it is a market of diminishing
returns. Younger players are cheaper than
free agents; in addition, the marginal ben-
efit of signing veterans — many of them
have injury risks or have already peaked
— is often not worth the while. In any type
of business, it is more efficient to promote
talent from within than look elsewhere.
Two of the best teams in baseball, the
Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox,
have excelled through these principles.
I’ve previously written about how the Rays
have pieced together an excellent team
whose value far exceeds its cost. And while
the Sox have a hefty payroll, their best
players this year have been home-grown.
Dustin Pedroia hit .327 while saving runs
at second base and Jon Lester’s 210 innings
at the league-minimum salary make him
impossible to replace.
Come October tomorrow, teams that
have developed their own talent and
acquired players with multi-dimensional
skill-sets become anything but marginal.
Jeremy Greenhouse is a sophomore who has
not yet declared a major. He can be reached
at Jeremy.Greenhouse@tufts.edu.
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Women’s Cross Country Women’s Tennis

McNamara takes third-place finish Browne comes out on

amidst fierce competition Saturday top in singles at MIT
by David Heck
Daily Editorial Board
The women’s cross country team
continued its string of strong per-
formances this season, coming in
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Codfish Bowl, Boston, Mass.,
Saturday
3rd out of 16 teams
3. Steph McNamara (18:27)
11. Amy Wilfert (19:11)
26. Anya Price (20:03)
31. Amy Hopkins (20:25)
32. Susan Allegretti (20:28)
third out of 16 teams at the 41st
annual Codfish Bowl in Franklin
Park in Boston on Saturday. While
originally scheduled to take part in
the Conn. College Invitational, the
Jumbos had to make last-minute
changes on Friday afternoon after
the race hosted by the Camels was
cancelled due to heavy rain.
Despite the late addition to the
Codfish Bowl, Tufts’ 91-point total
was behind only that of the Greater
Boston Track Club (TC), which won
with 21 points, and Adelphi, which
finished second with 67 points. In
four races this year, the Jumbos
have tallied two first-place and two
third-place finishes.
“We were just happy to run a
race,” coach Kristen Morwick said.
“I don’t think [the Codfish Bowl]
held any more significance than
that. We didn’t want to go two weeks
without a race before going into All-
New Englands [on Oct.11th].”
Sophomore Steph McNamara earned third at the Codfish Bowl in Franklin.
Sophomore Steph McNamara
continued her standout year for
Tufts, finishing third out of the field
of 151 competitors. Of the three
races in which she has taken part
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this year, the Codfish Bowl actually
marked her worst finish, as she has
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by Sapna Bansil
Daily Editorial Board
So much for a sophomore
slump.
After a freshman campaign that
earned her regional Rookie of the
Year and All-American honors,
second-year Julia Browne showed
no signs of slowing down this
weekend as the women’s tennis
team opened its fall season at the
ITA New England Championships
at MIT. On Sunday, the fourth-
seeded Browne topped the third
seed, junior Leslie Hansen of the
host Engineers, 7-5, 6-0 to claim
the singles crown, thought to be
the first such title won by a Jumbo
in tournament history.
“In Julia’s own words, she said,
‘That was the best tennis I’ve ever
played in my life,’” coach Kate
Bayard said. “She played well in
the first round, but she got better
and better every match. By the
final match, she was hitting a lot
of put-away shots from the base-
line and the net that I rarely see
her use in matches, and she was
hitting them over and over again.
I was in awe of her tennis those
last couple rounds.”
Browne also teamed with junior
captain Meghan McCooey to make
a spirited run to the finals of the
doubles tournament before bow-
ing out in a tiebreaker to Williams’
top-seeded duo of senior co-cap-
tain Cary Gibson and sophomore
Nikki Reich.
After sailing through the first
four rounds of the singles bracket
without dropping a set, Browne
earned her way into Sunday’s
semifinal showdown against
Gibson, arguably the most formi-
dable opponent of Browne’s young
career. The Eph All-American, who
ended last year’s spring season as
the No. 2-ranked player in the
nation, entered the tournament
as the top seed. But Browne was
up to the challenge, coming from
behind to earn an impressive 5-7,
6-3, 6-4 victory over last year’s
tournament champion and a spot
in the finals.
“The competition was really,
really strong, and to have beaten
[Gibson] was such a great accom-
plishment,” Browne said. “I’m
really excited about it and it gives
me a lot of confidence because
she’s such a great player.”
From there, it was on to the
title bout against Hansen, who
defeated McCooey by default
in the quarterfinals of the same
tournament a year ago. Browne,
however, exacted a slight measure
of revenge, downing Hansen in
straight sets, 7-5, 6-0 to clinch the
singles championship.
“I was very excited … but it
didn’t really sink in then,” Browne
said. “I still wanted to stay focused
because we had doubles coming
up within the hour. At the time, I
was excited for maybe a minute
while they gave me my plaque, but
now that the tournament’s over,
I’m going to give myself a chance
to let it all sink in.
“It was an unbelievable week-
end,” she added.
Later in the day, Browne and
McCooey nearly managed to give
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Men’s Cross Country

Jumbos’ efforts rewarded with NESAC recognition
Faller hustles to first place Tufts athletics continued to domi-
nate with solid play this weekend,

at competition in Franklin Park which ended in conference acco-

by Lauren Flament
Contributing Writer
Following a schedule change that sent the
men’s cross country team to a race in Franklin
Park in Boston instead of the Conn. College
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Codfish Bowl, Boston, Mass.,
Saturday
2nd out of 17 teams
1. Jesse Faller (25:42)
4. Nick Welch (25:54)
23. Ryan Lena (26:46)
29. Jeff Ragazzini (26:59)
30. Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot (27:08)
Invitational, junior Jesse Faller continued to
show his mettle as one of the top Jumbo run-
ners, winning the Codfish Bowl Saturday.
In a field of 155 runners, Faller crossed
the line of the 8,000-meter race in 25:42. The
junior’s effort led Tufts to a second-place finish
among seventeen teams, as the Jumbos tallied
76 points behind winner Greater Boston Track
Club’s 49 points.
“It was a solid day; Jesse ran amazing,”
junior co-captain Nick Welch said. “He moved
up throughout the race and ended up win-
ning the whole thing looking effortless. I think
it’s a great indication of where he’s at.”
“Tactically it went well because I got out
conservatively and then moved up through-
out the rest of the race,” Faller said.
Welch crossed the line in fourth place with
a time of 25:54. Junior Ryan Lena was the
third runner for the Jumbos, finishing 23rd
overall with a time of 26:46. Sophomores
Jeff Ragazzini and Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot
rounded off the scorers for Tufts, crossing
the line 29th and 30th and finishing in 26:59
and 27:08, respectively.
“I thought the team ran very well,” coach
Ethan Barron said. “They stuck to strategy, and
it seemed to be a good early-season effort. I
was really happy to see almost all of our top
runners in control and relaxed for the first half
of the race.
“It was good to see our second pack stuck
together for a good chunk of the race,” he
continued. “I thought that some of the rest of
the pack outside of our top seven raced very
intelligently.”
The Codfish Bowl was the first 8k race of
the season for the Jumbo varsity squad, which
had focused primarily on 5,000 meter events,
so coming into the competition questions
remained about their ability to run well at the
longer distance.
“It was a solid race, and I think it was a sign
that our training is going in the right direction,”
Welch said. “Since it was our first 8k, the idea
was mostly to get out hard, see where we were
in the field, and more or less run steady and
try to move up throughout the race. Mostly we
just wanted a chance to go out hard and put in
a solid effort to gauge our fitness at this point
in the year.
“Right now we are where we need to be,” he
continued. “We know that the times are going
to keep dropping as the season goes on, and
we’ll be continuing to improve as the weeks go
on. This meet wraps a big month or so of train-
ing, and we are right where we need to be.”
The team was scheduled to run at the Conn.
College Invitational Saturday, but because of
heavy rain, the Jumbos made a last-minute
entry into the Codfish Bowl.
“The change of venue was inconsequential,”
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lades for three Jumbo competitors.
Sophomore Sarah Nolet was named
NESCAC Player of the Week for wom-
en’s soccer, junior Jesse Faller claimed
Performer of the Week honors in
men’s cross country and sophomore
Caitlin Updike earned Player of the
Week for volleyball.
A defensive center-midfielder, Nolet
nabbed the honor for her efforts in
the Jumbos’ matches against Wheaton
and Bates. She scored what proved to
be the game-winner against the pow-
erhouse Lyons as the Jumbos upset
them 2-0 on the road Wednesday.
Homecoming Saturday saw her provide
an insurance goal as Tufts took out
Bates by the same score. Additionally,
she contributed to the 4-0 Jumbos’
stellar defense as they blanked both
opponents this week, a pattern that
stretches back to the start of the sea-
son; the Tufts defensive line has yet to
surrender a single goal all season.
Faller took home NESCAC Performer
of the Week honors for his first-place
finish at the 41st annual Codfish Bowl
at Franklin Park in Boston. Competing JAmes Choca/Tufts Daily
against a field of 155 runners (Div. II
and Div. III athletes and amateur com- to a perfect team record of 13-0.
petition), Faller’s time of 25:42 on the Updike’s best performance came in
8k course was three seconds ahead of the Jumbos’ biggest match — the final
second-place Nicholas Koiyet of the against NESCAC foe Conn. College
New York Institute of Technology. The — in which she led the team with 20
win was the first of Faller’s collegiate kills and contributed an additional 16
career and helped Tufts place second digs. She led or co-led the Jumbos in
out of 17 teams. kills in each of their four matches over
Meanwhile, Updike had quite a the weekend, guiding the squad to its
week for the volleyball team, capturing first-ever victory at the tournament,
both NESCAC Player of the Week and which is held in Cambridge, Mass.
Tournament MVP accolades at the MIT
Invitational as the Jumbos improved — by David Heck